#malgar

Malgar has a 40k version too, but for now I decided to draw his headshot :)

The Dragon God of Suffering

All that is hardship, corrupting, and reviled, these are the toys with which Malgar wove his influence over the world. Throughout the ages he had been responsible for the corruption of pure souls into twisted reflections of themselves. He was the grand manipulator and the puppeteer of madness and hate. Malgar had been the mastermind behind many great atrocities in the world. He delighted in pain and suffering. The deity himself was notorious for being horribly unpredictable in his temper. He was as likely to reward a follower as he was to smite them for the smallest perceived slight. Mortals were toys to be molded, prodded and even broken for his amusement. 

All forms of suffering were his to drink in like a fine wine. Whether it was from sublime grief to cruel murder to sinister plots it did not matter to him. Where there has been evil in the world, it is almost assured that Malgar had a hand in its inception. For all of his unpredictability however, Malgar was possessed of an insidious genius. Anyone who believed him a fool was quick to learn that there was a brilliant method to his beautiful madness. Despite his depravities, the Madgod had many followers. While there was no organized cult devoted to his worship, his name was commonly invoked in the darkest places of the world.

During the Heavenswar, Malgar sought to capitalize on the devastation being wrought. It was his ambition to supplant the Dragon King as the supreme deity of the pantheon. When he believed that Eikaen was most vulnerable, Malgar engaged the Dragon King in battle in the hopes of destroying him and gaining control of the world. The two deities fought bitterly but during the fighting the mortal powers interrupted the battle. Eikaen was gravely wounded but retreated successfully, the Stonelords however, trapped Malgar and destroyed him.

He was the eighth Dragon God to fall but the Stonelords felt no victory in his downfall. As he lay dying, Malgar simply laughed and they felt only dread.